Greta Rainbow
Greta Rainbow is a writer, editor, and artist from Seattle, living in Brooklyn. She writes a monthly books column for the newsletter Dirt, and her criticism has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, and the New York Review of Architecture, among other publications.
The choreography of AA—or Narcotics Anonymous, or Co-Dependents Anonymous, or any other possible twelve-step program—opens Paradise Container, an ambitious room-to-room performance that theorizes a movement of addiction.
While these photos call attention to the service that a cemetery provides the living, they also reflect a private engagement. In the spring of 2020, at seventy-six years old and testing positive for coronavirus, photographer Eugene Richards took a walk in a place where he knew he’d be alone: Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.
This new, expanded edition of photos are of people, buildings, and landscapes across America taken during road trips between 1978 and 1984. Ordered primarily geographically, it begins in the West: bikers surveying the blue of Bear Lake, Utah, and cows surveying the camera on a central California ranch.
The hipster clothing brand fit a particular New York moment, advertising with billboards of Woody Allen film stills and tuning the stores to Turn On the Bright Lights. That physical and music landscape could never exist today.
